Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...privileges which students at Harvard are enabled to take advantage of is the great library system. It is now proposed to make it still more useful by the establishment of a special library of German literature. The German department of the general library is well equipped but it is thought most of these books ought to be in general circulation. A special library could be made much more complete and systematic. By having a separate room, as in the Evans library of political science, greater seclusion and better opportunities for quiet study could also be secured. The Evans library...
...invite teams from the different colleges to compete. If this plan is carried out, the tournament will probably be held in Cambridge, some time in May, and six or seven teams will be invited to participate. Shooting clubs are becoming so popular in the different colleges that it is thought desirable to extend the matches beyond the annual match with the University of Pennsylvania; and for this purpose, the tournament has been proposed, the end in view being to form a league of all the college teams, which will meet every year for a match, either on the grounds...
...under a strong inspiration of his own. His writings are divided into two classes: those which were delivered in Mecca, and those which were delivered in Medina. The suras of the first class are enthusiastic and pathetic; those of the second class are characterized by cooler and better ordered thought...
...gold in California gave a new impetus to this idea; for the Union Pacific railroad had not then been built, and the journey overland was long and dangerous, while the voyage around Cape Horn was fraught with hardships. But on the breaking out of the civil war all thought of an Isthmian canal, so far as the United States were concerned had to be abandoned...
...Woodbury '89 continued the negative. He thought that a navy is imperatively needed to inspire respect for our flag and representatives abroad; that it is needed as a training school for seamen, as at present we have almost no American seamen...